After last week’s dismal local election result for Labour, Abbott got into another math-related gaffe when she said Labour lost just 50 seats, when they had in fact lost 125. She changed her answer from 50 to 100 in a matter of seconds.

During an appearance on Good Morning Britain on Monday, Iain Duncan Smith was urged by host Piers Morgan to repeat the Eminem lyrics he had first used during a commercial break.

Rising to the challenge, he said: “Well you were talking about Eminem earlier on, and I said that of course in those Lose Yourself lyrics there’s some lyrics for Diane Abbott.”